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milreed(at)directcon.net
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 Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: GPS |
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Please advise what GPS I should buy to use here on the ranch
[url=]http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/[/url]
on the ground as well as later in my 701 when I get it built? How do you correlate Latitude and Longitude with township and range ?
Mil Reed
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jpellien
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
Posts: 21
Location: Basye, Virginia
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: GPS |
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Milburn,
396 with weather overlay $2495. Can buy a cradle for it in your airplane and another for your car. Plop it into your aircraft to see aviation information (moving map), as well as weather conditions via satellite,…you can also see the locations of other nearby aircraft, just like what the controllers see, for all aircraft that are using a transponder, provided you also have the GTX-330 Transponder with Traffic Information Service (TIS).
Then take the 396 out of the aircraft after your flight and put it into the automobile cradle and see a moving map of roadways, interstates, restaurant locations and stores.
There are many less capable GPS systems from Garmin starting at about $400. Just do a google search on “Aviation GPS” and have fund learning about all of the new GPS offerings. The 396 is probably the best price/performance Portable GPS on the market as I speak.
Jim
Jim Pellien
Mid-Atlantic Sports Planes
Sky Bryce Airport (VG18)
Basye, VA
www.MASPL.com
703-313-4818
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Milburn Reed
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:08 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: GPS
Please advise what GPS I should buy to use here on the ranch
http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/
on the ground as well as later in my 701 when I get it built? How do you correlate Latitude and Longitude with township and range ?
Mil Reed
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frank.hinde(at)hp.com
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: GPS |
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And then come back to your car to fin the windows smashed and your 396 GONE!...Assuming you forgot and left it in your car of course...
Frank
Do not archive
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Jim Pellien
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 6:59 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: Zenith-List: GPS
Milburn,
396 with weather overlay $2495. Can buy a cradle for it in your airplane and another for your car. Plop it into your aircraft to see aviation information (moving map), as well as weather conditions via satellite,…you can also see the locations of other nearby aircraft, just like what the controllers see, for all aircraft that are using a transponder, provided you also have the GTX-330 Transponder with Traffic Information Service (TIS).
Then take the 396 out of the aircraft after your flight and put it into the automobile cradle and see a moving map of roadways, interstates, restaurant locations and stores.
There are many less capable GPS systems from Garmin starting at about $400. Just do a google search on “Aviation GPS” and have fund learning about all of the new GPS offerings. The 396 is probably the best price/performance Portable GPS on the market as I speak.
Jim
Jim Pellien
Mid-Atlantic Sports Planes
Sky Bryce Airport (VG18)
Basye, VA
www.MASPL.com
703-313-4818
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Milburn Reed
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:08 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: Zenith-List: GPS
Please advise what GPS I should buy to use here on the ranch
http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/
on the ground as well as later in my 701 when I get it built? How do you correlate Latitude and Longitude with township and range ?
Mil Reed
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bjohnson(at)satx.rr.com
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:58 am Post subject: GPS |
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That transponder is almost FOUR GRAND!!!!
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Jim Pellien
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:59 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: GPS
Milburn,
396 with weather overlay $2495. Can buy a cradle for it in your airplane and another for your car. Plop it into your aircraft to see aviation information (moving map), as well as weather conditions via satellite,…you can also see the locations of other nearby aircraft, just like what the controllers see, for all aircraft that are using a transponder, provided you also have the GTX-330 Transponder with Traffic Information Service (TIS).
Then take the 396 out of the aircraft after your flight and put it into the automobile cradle and see a moving map of roadways, interstates, restaurant locations and stores.
There are many less capable GPS systems from Garmin starting at about $400. Just do a google search on “Aviation GPS” and have fund learning about all of the new GPS offerings. The 396 is probably the best price/performance Portable GPS on the market as I speak.
Jim
Jim Pellien
Mid-Atlantic Sports Planes
Sky Bryce Airport (VG18)
Basye, VA
www.MASPL.com
703-313-4818
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Milburn Reed
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:08 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: GPS
Please advise what GPS I should buy to use here on the ranch
http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/
on the ground as well as later in my 701 when I get it built? How do you correlate Latitude and Longitude with township and range ?
Mil Reed
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jpellien
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
Posts: 21
Location: Basye, Virginia
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:18 pm Post subject: GPS |
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Yes, that is correct. A little under $4000 for the Garmin GTX 330. Do you know of a less expensive way to get transponder operating air traffic info into the cockpit and displayed on a moving map? I’d like to hear about it, if there is a better, cheaper alternative.
Jim
Jim Pellien
Mid-Atlantic Sports Planes
Sky Bryce Airport (VG18)
Basye, VA
www.MASPL.com
703-313-4818
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of B Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:57 AM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: GPS
That transponder is almost FOUR GRAND!!!!
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Jim Pellien
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:59 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: GPS
Milburn,
396 with weather overlay $2495. Can buy a cradle for it in your airplane and another for your car. Plop it into your aircraft to see aviation information (moving map), as well as weather conditions via satellite,…you can also see the locations of other nearby aircraft, just like what the controllers see, for all aircraft that are using a transponder, provided you also have the GTX-330 Transponder with Traffic Information Service (TIS).
Then take the 396 out of the aircraft after your flight and put it into the automobile cradle and see a moving map of roadways, interstates, restaurant locations and stores.
There are many less capable GPS systems from Garmin starting at about $400. Just do a google search on “Aviation GPS” and have fund learning about all of the new GPS offerings. The 396 is probably the best price/performance Portable GPS on the market as I speak.
Jim
Jim Pellien
Mid-Atlantic Sports Planes
Sky Bryce Airport (VG18)
Basye, VA
www.MASPL.com
703-313-4818
From: owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-zenith-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Milburn Reed
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:08 PM
To: zenith-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: GPS
Please advise what GPS I should buy to use here on the ranch
http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/
on the ground as well as later in my 701 when I get it built? How do you correlate Latitude and Longitude with township and range ?
Mil Reed
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Mid-Atlantic Sports Planes
703-313-4818
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p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: GPS |
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Hi Jim,
I am sure you are right that the Garmin equipment is very good if the buyer wants all that fancy stuff. On the other hand, I believe the original question was about GPS.
You can get a quite functional GPS for under $500 if that is what you want. I bought a Lowrance Airmap 500 about a year ago on special for a little over $300. It is a quite functional aviation GPS. It has a small black and white screen and doesn't do any of the really fancy stuff like displaying terrain, satellite weather, or radar transponder stuff. On the other hand It knows where all the airports are and can easily help any pilot stay oriented and on the proper path to his destination. It is a very sophisticated navigation device that anyone would have killed for 20 years ago. Now it is just entry level electronic wizardry.
I am sure there are many choices in between these extremes. I bought the Airmap 500 since it was inexpensive and I wanted to learn how to use a GPS. I had read articles pointing out that many pilots couldn't figure out how to operate these gizmos. After months of using it in my car I can understand why it takes a considerable amount of practice and not a few mistakes to get this technology to work for you. If you only have one (with all the extra bells and whistles) in a rental plane to play with then I can imagine you will never get it figured out.
I will probably buy a larger GPS with a color screen to go in my plane when it is at that stage. For now, the low end unit is just fine for me. Another possibility is I will buy an EFIS system with built in GPS. I hope the experience I had with the low end unit will make learning the more sophisticated equipment easier.
Paul
XL fuselage
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| Quote: | Yes, that is correct. A little under $4000 for the Garmin GTX 330. Do you know of a less expensive way to get transponder operating air traffic info into the cockpit and displayed on a moving map? I’d like to hear about it, if there is a better, cheaper alternative.
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milreed(at)directcon.net
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: GPS |
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Thank you [url=mailto:p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net------]p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net (p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net)------[/url] good advise to us po fok building a ch 701----- I can use that low cost unit (have seen on sale for 299 and a Garmin already),until I sell a 160 acre parcel, then will probably need something else (bigger tractor?)
Milburn Reed
http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/
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ggower_99(at)yahoo.com
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: GPS |
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Hello Milburn,
I think that more important that getting a GPS (and learning all his "goodies") is to learn to navigate with the charts (the old way) this needs a little study from your old private pilot school books and lots of practice (is also fun) my last cross country was planned and I used the compas, windows (not the computer one , chart, plotter rule, computer rule, watch and pencil... Was lots of fun,
Even flying over known area, is easy to get lost, not that you dont know where you are, BUT to find your actual position with accuracy in the chart
Fly for fun and practice the basics, the GPS is a very good backup instrument...
Sorry, forgot firstto look at the satelite weather page at home before any flight, dont fly in marginal weather. Too risky to smash that expensive GPS
Saludos
Gary Gower.
Flying from Chapala, Mexico.
701 912S.
Building a 601 XL.
Milburn Reed <milreed(at)directcon.net> wrote: | Quote: | Thank you (p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net)p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net ([email]p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net------[/email]) ([email]p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net------[/email]) ([email]p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att.net------[/email])------ good advise to us po fok building a ch 701----- I can use that low cost unit (have seen on sale for 299 and a Garmin already),until I sell a 160 acre parcel, then will probably need something else (bigger tractor?)
Milburn Reed
http://www.directcon.net/reedranch/
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Larry Martin
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:55 pm Post subject: GPS |
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Why dig with a shovel, when you got a backhoe? Do not archive, Larry
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject: GPS |
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When the backhoe busts a hydraulic line and the sh*t is overflowing into your basement, you best know how to use the shovel.....
Dusty
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:16 am Post subject: GPS |
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Larry wrote:
[quote] *Why dig with a shovel, when you got a backhoe? Do not archive, Larry*
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